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ENR CTIO Blanco 4-m 2013-11-23

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Date: 
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Telescope: 
CTIO Blanco 4-m
Submitter: 
Alberto Alvarez
Submitter Email: 
Observer Support: 
Manuel Hernandez
Night Assistant: 
Alberto Alvarez
Also Present: 
David Rojas, Tim Abbott
Problems: 

The calibrations during the afternoon went well.
We started observing around 9:15 pm and the first image was a zero. Then we took an r-band image (225772) of the bright star for centering and we realized that the stars had a donut shape. We thought it was a focus problem and then we pressumed that something was going wring with the hexapod.

Tim tried to diagnose the problem, talked with people in US and solved the problem around 2 am. We started doing science observations at 2:25 am and the system worked until 3:16 am. The last image we took was an i-band image of 30 seconds exposure (257808). Once the image was taken, we heard a beep from the system and we saw that the queue has halted. We saw that the hexapod X,Y and Z numbers in the GUI window went to very high values and the Status of Hexapod changed to Error. The Error message is {"fatal".'5"',"warning","5"}, and it's the same that appeared at the begginign of the night. We decided to stop doing any observation.

Comments: 

We only did science for 45 minutes.

Conditions: 
General Conditions
Comment: 
None.
1st Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Wind: 
Low
Seeing Value: 
1.00
Seeing Variability: 
0.2
Seeing Source: 
The Telescope I used
Sky : 
6
2nd Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
6
3rd Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
6
4th Quarter
Clouds: 
Partially cloudy
Seeing Value: 
0.00
Seeing Variability: 
0
Seeing Source: 
CTIO Seeing monitor
Sky: 
6
Program: 
Proposal: 
2013B-0613
Target of Oportunity: 
No
Time Observed: 
1.0
Time Engineering: 
0.0
Time lost technical: 
7.0
Time lost weather: 
0.0
Time lost other: 
0.0
Description: 
Fornax cluster
Primary Investigator: 
Roberto Munoz
Institution: 
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Instrument: 
CTIO 4m DECam
Organization: 
Chile
Total Program Time: 
8
Total Times Time Observed Time Engineering Time lost technical Time lost weather Time lost other Total Program Time
2013-11-23 1.0 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 8